Valve sends out suggestive images to a variety of Apple-related sites

Brian Ambrozy 3 Mar, 2010 at 4:18pm ET Article published in Gaming

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   3 Mar 2010 ~ 4:25pm timuchan I Valve.
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   3 Mar 2010 ~ 4:25pm Cliff_Forster So what we are saying is that that OSX will only be about five years behind the curve at this point?
   
   Holy shit, mac fanboy's are going to have access to games I finished five years ago!!
   
   FM tuners, mice with two buttons and now 3D games!! Baby steps Apple, baby steps....
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   3 Mar 2010 ~ 5:03pm Garg Awesome images. Well done, Valve.
   
   I hope Steve Jobs gives everyone at Valve a big hug. No longer can people complain about gaming on a Mac. Hell, if Steam was available for OSX two years ago when I bought my laptop, I might have got a PowerBook.
   
   I wonder if anything besides Source games will be available.
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   3 Mar 2010 ~ 5:15pm Ryder

   Cliff_Forster wrote:

   So what we are saying is that that OSX will only be about five years behind the curve at this point?
   
   Holy shit, mac fanboy's are going to have access to games I finished five years ago!!
   
   FM tuners, mice with two buttons and now 3D games!! Baby steps Apple, baby steps....

   How do you glean that no games for Apple is all Apple's fault?
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   3 Mar 2010 ~ 5:20pm Thrax PowerPC.
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   3 Mar 2010 ~ 5:25pm chrisWhite Fuck. Yes.
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   3 Mar 2010 ~ 5:29pm GnomeWizardd So does that mean I can run the versions I own on my mac now or do i have to buy the MAC versios?
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   3 Mar 2010 ~ 5:40pm Cliff_Forster

   RyderOCZ wrote:

   How do you glean that no games for Apple is all Apple's fault?

   
   I suppose I don't, but its just kind of embarrassing to their camp if you ask me. Like wow, look what we got, Half Life 2!! Whooo hoooo!!!!
   
   Having a mac to game on was kinda like me having an Atari 7800 when my neighbors had the NES (true story)
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   3 Mar 2010 ~ 5:48pm chrisWhite Oh, it's definitely somewhat Apple's fault, they've never cared about gaming and never done anything to make it easy to develop for in that respect. Mac games get little exposure from Apple, their the second class citizen of the platform.
   
   Until the iPhone/iPod Touch App Store that is.
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    3 Mar 2010 ~ 7:24pm Sudo Nimh Excellent, more cannon fodder for this old fart to kill. Apple fanboys with little experience at FPS.
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    3 Mar 2010 ~ 7:52pm Komete I hope game developers don't start looking seriously at Macs. It's bad enough with gaming consoles stifling the progress of graphics as it is.
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    3 Mar 2010 ~ 8:07pm Leonardo

    I hope game developers don't start looking seriously at Macs.

    My first thought was, "Nah, don't worry about it. The Mac market isn't large enough for the competitive games studios to lose any sleep over." But then, certain attributes of the Apple/Mac 'community' made me think again. Apple could get behind this, market the old games with new names, convince the Apple Fanboys and girls that it's all an Apple innovation, and boom, games start selling at the apple store for $250 a pop, game add-ons/updates only $50 per installment. Low volume, high profit! Whatever game features don't get ported over to Mac will be called "unnecessary, risky, and over complicated."
    
    Can you imagine what Apple might charge for a "gaming Mac?"
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    3 Mar 2010 ~ 8:31pm RyanMM If I find out that they wasted one man-hour on Steam for Apple that could've been spent on GODDAMNED PORTAL TWO I WILL LOSE IT.
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    4 Mar 2010 ~ 7:07am Basil
    Macworld got an image too.
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    4 Mar 2010 ~ 7:48am Zuntar

    RyanMeray wrote:

    If I find out that they wasted one man-hour on Steam for Apple that could've been spent on GODDAMNED PORTAL TWO I WILL LOSE IT.

    
    ^This! That's also how I feel about Blizzard, WoW and Starcraft 2!!!!!!!!!!
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    4 Mar 2010 ~ 8:28am Linc I think it's a good investment. Personally, my PC / KVM setup is purely due to my need to play Valve games despite having moved to my Mac mini for everything else. Otherwise I'd cart the PC right off my desk.
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    4 Mar 2010 ~ 11:01am jared ^^ what he said. I have a PC for the sole purpose of gaming and WMC.
    
    If steam came to osx i'd consider getting rid of it.
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    4 Mar 2010 ~ 2:02pm UPSLynx Upgradability. Simply. No matter the strength of gaming and other programs on the Mac, I would NEVER ditch a PC for gaming.
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    4 Mar 2010 ~ 2:22pm chrisWhite I don't get it actually, I don't see why Valve would feel like this is that compelling of a market in terms of numbers. Sure, it's wide open for them and they'll get a lot of new fans and make more fans very happy, but even so, the numbers aren't really there.
    
    That said, I'm quite happy if they spent months on this instead of HL2 Episode 3 or Portal 2. Suck it kids.
    
    My big question right now is whether players on both platforms will be able to play online with each other via multiplayer. Outside of MMO (just WoW?), are there any other games that do this?
    
    Edit: @Lynx, agreed. I do like the idea of having a dedicated game (and 3D) PC but also being able to take some games mobile with an OS X laptop (the area of the market they're strongest in). If game saves could sync to the cloud it would be the perfect setup for me.
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    4 Mar 2010 ~ 2:29pm Cliff_Forster In a perfect world more developers would have supported OpenGL and we would be able to take our games to any platform we want, but what can I say, Microsoft invested more in Direct X, its as simple as that.
    
    Don't get me wrong, I think its great OSX is going to get Steam and some Valve ports, honestly I do. I just don't want to talk about it like its something cutting edge, or a huge step forward for gamers because its not.
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    4 Mar 2010 ~ 2:39pm BlackHawk

    chrisWhite wrote:

    My big question right now is whether players on both platforms will be able to play online with each other via multiplayer. Outside of MMO (just WoW?), are there any other games that do this?

    
    I remember one of the NFS games you could play against console players.
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    4 Mar 2010 ~ 3:29pm AlexDeGruven

    Thrax wrote:

    PowerPC.

    
    Pretty weak argument in these days, considering that both the XBox360 and PS3 have PPC-based processors.
    
    Yes, I know they're lightyears ahead of the post-67k Apple gear, but it's still a valid point.
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    4 Mar 2010 ~ 3:58pm Thrax Apple switched to x86 in, what? 2005? 2006?
    
    This means that Apple architecture spent two decades being incompatible with the ISA predominantly used by the PC gaming industry. Is it any wonder, then, that nobody bothered to develop workflows or processes to develop on this architecture? And need I mention the 1-3% market share?
    
    There was no money in it, and no incentive.